The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

The 8th Innovator's Mindset with George Couros From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. George Couros talks about how to make learning meaningful in our classroom. In this episode, George Couros and I discuss how to make meaningful learning experiences. Check out the full series.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 31, 2015

from the Cool Cat Teacher Blog From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The Cool Cat Teacher blog celebrated 10 years , has 167 new posts this year with a total of 3,672 blog posts in the archive. Millions have visited this blog and wow, so many things have happened in ten years.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

Learning and Sharing Can Spread from Teacher to Teacher with George Couros From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This type of learning is called an open culture of learning and George Couros, author of the Innovator’s Mindset, shares how it works. boring professional development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

A conversation with Dr. Kimberly Tyson and Dr. Angela Peery on episode 94 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite. Today, the vocabulary doctors teach us how to teach vocabulary in the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we welcome Billy Krakower, a nationally recognized educator with 16 years of experience and a passion for bringing technology and creativity into the classroom. Google Certified Trainer, ISTE Certified Educator, and 2014 ASCD Emerging Leader.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. In 2014, Mitch co-founded Edchat Interactive with Tom Whitby and Steve Anderson. Blog: [link]. Twitter: @ weisburghm.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Simulation is a great way to learn how to deal with a variety of situations, and visualize concepts otherwise hard to explain. Immersive VR Education have been creating educational tools since they opened in October 2014. And now this immersion can be taken to the next level with VR.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

This blog post was originally published by EdSurge. The administrator winners of our 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards are inspiring examples of change managers, showing what it means to both lead and learn at the same time. Guest co-author Mary Jo Madda is an Associate Editor at EdSurge. Dance leads the S.T.A.T.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Teaches children how to sit quietly and listen while another is talking. I know — you’re convinced but don’t know how to blend read-alouds into your busy writer’s schedule. Charlesbridge, 2014. Illus by Emily Sutton) Candlewick Press, 2014. Unite for Literacy. Simon & Schuster, 2015.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 25, 2019

If you are looking to read, how will you connect the information you consume and dig deeper? For this, blogging is a great tool not only to synthesize your learning but to also catalog it into a type of library. 3 Ideas to Help You Blog. 5 Reasons Your Portfolio Should be a Blog. ( 3 Ideas to Help You Blog.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 15, 2014

On March 5, 2014, I was privileged to moderate and participate on a panel on Bridging the Digital Divide with BYOD Equity at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas. Forsyth County Schools was an early trailblazer in BYOD initiatives and is looked to nationwide as a resource for how to implement BYOD and implement it well.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 15, 2014

This post is part of Scott McLeod’s Leadership Day 2014. PD should give your Ts a GEM: it should “Grow You”, “Engage You”, and “Mean something to you” — GNichols (@Think_teach) August 6, 2014. Unfortunately, many of our administrators do not know how to value your time or support you.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Center for Disease Control, 2014 ). 90% of teens who report being cyberbullied have also been bullied offline. ( “Seven Fears and the Science of How Mobile Technologies May Be Influencing Adolescents in the Digital Age,” George and Odgers, 2015 ). Be unwilling to attend school. Receive poor grades. Have lower self-esteem. Sadly: 14.8%

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 3, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Digital Equity: How to Understand The Problems Facing #Edtech. The post 3 Ways to Stress Less in Today’s Classroom appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This blog post will discuss my experience and share what I created related to computer science. Computer science apps will produce analytics like this, and you do need to know how to read the charts in the graphs. Can my PD help me do my job better?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Teaches children how to sit quietly and listen while another is talking. I know — you’re convinced but don’t know how to blend read-alouds into your busy writer’s schedule. Charlesbridge, 2014. Illus by Emily Sutton) Candlewick Press, 2014. Simon & Schuster, 2015. by Sandra S. by Alan Marks.)

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edWeb.net

MARCH 2, 2021

He first became involved with news literacy in 2014 when his students engaged in NLP’s original classroom program. The post How to Recognize and Understand Conspiratorial Thinking appeared first on edWeb. He joined NLP in March 2017 with 13 years of experience as a middle and high social studies teacher with Chicago Public Schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2020

Teaches children how to sit quietly and listen while another is talking. I know — you’re convinced but don’t know how to blend read-alouds into your busy writer’s schedule. Charlesbridge, 2014. Illus by Emily Sutton) Candlewick Press, 2014. Unite for Literacy. Simon & Schuster, 2015.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Lynn Colón shares insight on empowering girls in schools today From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Lynn Colón, co-author of Empowering Girls: Opening the Door for Girls to Achieve More , helps us understand what schools need to be doing to intentionally empower their female students to achieve more.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2022

Nevertheless, it has been trying ever since to find its legitimacy through achievable and accessible interdisciplinary instruction, which was, for instance, the rationale behind The University of British Columbia (UBC) Mix concept designed in 2014. Read more: How to teach students entrepreneurship over an online platform.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I started blogging over eight years ago merely for the reason to understand how this type of platform would help our students. Blogging has helped my learning grow significantly because I have done it consistently for myself, not necessarily for an audience. I am at the point that if I don’t blog, my brain starts to hurt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 30, 2017

Episode 44 of The 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today, for Thought Leader Thursday, we’re thinking about how we can all improve our classroom management skills. How to encourage intrinsic motivation. Blog: [link]. Selected Links from this Episode.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Teaches children how to sit quietly and listen while another is talking. I know — you’re convinced but don’t know how to blend read-alouds into your busy writer’s schedule. Charlesbridge, 2014. Illus by Emily Sutton) Candlewick Press, 2014. Unite for Literacy. Simon & Schuster, 2015.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

How to improve learning and listening in the classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In this episode, Tom Daccord and I discuss how to using podcasting in the classroom. In this episode, you’ll learn: How is podcasting being used in the classroom?

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In the early 80s there was much hand-wringing among teachers and education policy-makers regarding how to teach computer literacy given that many teachers did not having sufficient training, and “micro-computers” were prohibitively expensive. In 2014 a study found that many college freshmen had insufficient computer skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 2, 2018

Day 53 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tabor’s fictional heroine Hallie Leland talks about how to combat the rapture in his novel The Deep Zone, “She had felt it before…a gnawing anxiety that…intensified with every foot they down-climbed. Retrieved July 3, 2014.

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Reading By Example

MAY 10, 2018

I was searching my own blog, something I wrote that I could simply repost here which would convey strategies and ideas for blogging as an educator. Here is what I have found so far: The Writing Principal: Tips for Administrators Considering Blogging (October 2012). If I post my blog and no one reads it, did I really write it?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 14, 2017

A conversation with Alice Chen on Episode 55 of the 10-Minute Teacher Show From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Several important topics arise including how to talk to your students about their positive online presence and online professionalism. Authentic audience and blogging.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 1, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to shutter and educators and students rapidly shifted to distance learning, those in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had the advantage of already knowing how to use devices and apps for learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In episode 769 and this blog post, we're going to dig into reading stamina , why it is important, and practical ways we can help our students progress with reading stamina. Talk to your students about reading stamina and how to build it.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It's been edited for this blog. Emphasize the very real issues with inequity in traditional grading practices (as discussed here and here , for example), and how your alternative approach will be more equitable and help students who have traditionally been marginalized. This article first appeared at Grading For Growth.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 21, 2016

Advice from a National Award Winning Teacher Who Has Had Tough Times Too From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb shares his views on how to engage more teachers in teaching. He is the 2014 National Teacher of the Year. What can we do about it?

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Preferring to offer up innovative case studies from across the HE sector (rather than just discuss the issue) today’s blog will look at declining completion rates, and ways in which some universities are addressing them. The post HE Challenges: Combating declining completion rates appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2017

A conversation with Principal Will Parker in Episode 51 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn how his faculty and student council worked together to create a nurturing environment. And how one Post-It Note moved the whole to go viral with a movement of kindness.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 30, 2020

Google Classroom has been around since August of 2014 and has been well-loved by educators throughout its lifetime – as it should be. to show students how to navigate the course, submit assignments, and check their grades. The post How to Choose Your LMS: Canvas vs. Google Classroom appeared first on EdTechTeam.

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Hapara

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The education field has yet to agree on how to define it. One key objective of personalized learning, as well as for heutagogy , is engaged, proactive individuals who understand how to learn. A study from 2014 correlated personalized learning plans with increased motivation, sense of belonging and connectedness to school.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Why do you blog? I''m sharing my top 10 (of 54) blog posts for 2013 in the hope that more educators in the Internetverse will find something they can use. (in My blog post goal for 2014? edtech #TLChat blogging Google librarians libraries school librarians tech tips writing' I enjoy it! That''s the #1 reason.

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